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They don't control it, but the media manufactures consent for them, and they've made it clear any woman who accuses a sufficiently powerful Democrat will be absolutely destroyed personally and professionally, so for all intents and purposes it's dead because who would dare accuse a powerful man of rape now. Frankly it wouldn't have become a thing in the first place if Trump hadn't been so crude and rude, if he'd been affable and funny like Bush the Democrats and media would have closed ranks behind the bipartisan good old boy network like they always did for powerful rapists in the past (Bill Clinton, etc) VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Nov 12, 2020 |
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It's not a coincidence that MeToo was allowed to come to prominence at the precise moment we had a rapist Republican president instead of a rapist Democrat for a change, a Republican that Democrats hated (not for the rape obv, but for being crass and rude and for mocking the political system), and one that Democrats were desperate to differentiate themselves from on some issue since they agree on 90% of stuff (cage immigrants, endless wars, gently caress the poor, kill the earth, etc). Pretending to care about rape for a hot second was useful politically, and this had some good knock-on effects because assault victims were allowed to take down powerful men like Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken, but now that window is closed because the most powerful man in the world is a rapist Democrat so there's no longer any appetite in the Democratic Party or the liberal media to hold powerful rapists to account.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:what is this? #metoo gained traction because it spoke to the direct experience of likely a majority of women (and a huge number of men and other folks as well). Idk how it could be realistically suggested that it was some politically convenient hit job when there's so much more evidence that it came about naturally in response to peoples' experience. Yeah of course, I'm not saying it was astroturfed or anything, but it was ignored for years until prominent powerful people suddenly had a reason to want to believe accusers, that reason is gone now so they will default back to assuming all women are golddigging liars. Women with those experiences will of course continue the movement, they'll just all be treated like Tara Reade unfortunately
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Not that Gillibrand like, Would Have Won, but it was openly acknowledged that she was persona non grata among the big wigs of the Democratic party because she had the absolute gall to take a principled stand against sexual assault by answering in the affirmative when asked if Bill Clinton should have resigned. And that's when Democrats and the liberal media were still pretending to care about abused women.
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Or, ya know, the case of the former owner of these forums...
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